In content based image analysis and retrieval, texture feature is an essential component due to its strong discriminative power. Directionality is one of the most significant text...
Image matching is a fundamental task of many problems in computer vision. This paper presents a novel local feature descriptor based on the gradient distance and orientation histo...
In this paper, the problem of face authentication using salient facial features together with statistical generative models is adressed. Actually, classical generative models, and ...
A new learning strategy for object detection is presented.
The proposed scheme forgoes the need to train a collection
of detectors dedicated to homogeneous families of poses,
an...
Karim Ali, Francois Fleuret, David Hasler and Pasc...
In this paper, we introduce a new multiscale representation for 2-D images named the Inter-Coefficient Product (ICP). The ICP is a decimated pyramid of complex values based on the ...